Git repo gem ideas

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The purpose of this gem is to extract and manipulate git data from within the repo so that it can be used in conjunction with a ruby or rails project. 

Commits
- get_last_commit
  Returns an object of the last commit details. 
- get_commit_by_hash(hash_id)
  Returns an object of the selected commit details. 
- get_all_commits
  Get all the commits from the repository. 

Users
- get_all_authors
  Return the details of all authors what have contributed to the repo. 
- get_author_details(author_name)
  Get specific author details. 
- get_author_count
  Retrieve the count of users that have contributed to the repository. 

Branches
- get_branch_details(branch_name)
  Get details of a specific branch. 

Repo details
- set_repository_path
  Set the repository path via an override of the constructor method. 
- get_current_branch_name
  Get the branch name if the current branch. 
- get_all_branch_names
  Get the names of all branches available within the repository. 
- get_repository_size
  Gather the combined repository size. 
- get_filetype_count(file_extension)
  Show the count of files of a particular type from the repo.